Michael Pollan’s new book, Cooked, has just been published, and to celebrate, the rangy, brilliant food writer hosted 100 friends at the Morgan Lehmann Gallery underneath the High Line on West 22nd Street. Why there? So that his guests could be surrounded by the stunning paintings of Judith Belzer—his wife—whose electrifying depictions of cities Read More
Though most remember Balki Bartokomous’ “Dance of Joy” from the 1980s sitcom Perfect Strangers, this time it’s lovable Cousin Larry’s turn for a happy jig. The actor who played Larry, Mark Linn-Baker, recently sold his three-bedroom apartment at 17 West 71st Street for $2.85 million, $150,000 more than the asking price. Was there a bidding Read More
At the Time Warner Center on the afternoon of Thursday, July 9, the cast of Hair will serenade New Yorkers in an attempt to drum up excitement for Restaurant Week—which is increasingly seeming like a misnomer for a semi-annual promotion that last January was extended a full four weeks past its initial run.
This season, Read More
On Saturday, May 2, Naomi Starkman, a food policy media consultant to the Consumers Union and previously media consultant to The New Yorker, Portfolio and Wired, was sitting in a classroom at the Brooklyn Food Conference in Park Slope’s John Jay High School explaining how Twitter is one of Read More
What should media organizations do to survive? "We should embrace change,” Jeff Jarvis tells John Koblin. “Instead, too often we fight change. That’s the nature of organizations and institutions that hold power. Change might mean losing power. The great and magnificent irony of online—this would really send [Ron] Rosenbaum’s spine up—is that in my Read More
Mark Bittman, the New York Times food columnist and best-selling cookbook author, was ambling unnoticed through the tight aisles of the Fairway at 74th Street and Broadway on a mild Friday evening earlier this month, shopping for dinner. He nosed briefly around the fish counter before settling on a two-pound slab of monkfish. He had Read More
